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- Utilizing ground-penetrating radar, LiDar and 3D scanning, Lin will work with boots-on-the-ground archaeologists to discover and re-create unexcavated worlds still hidden beneath the earth.
- This documentary revolves around some WTC workers/rescuers as they share their experiences from the 9/11 attacks, beginning from the moment of when Flight 11 hit the North Tower to the aftermath of the collapse of both Twin Towers.
- Documentary looking predominantly at the plight of the poor in the East End of London during World War II air raids of 1940. How much of what is now seen as an example of British Bulldog bravado was actually acts of desperation and necessity against an unseen enemy and a government seemingly not always willing to help.
- Documentary examining the couple who rescued the monarchy. King George V was an unlikely moderniser but his innovations were key.
- The actor and history enthusiast explores the history of Britain through the everyday lives of ordinary people during four periods of British history.
- A British TV documentary series for ITV. Each hour long program sees well-known celebrities travel to various parts of the world to explore more about a person who has inspired them.
- The story of Elisabeth Fritzl, who was locked in a cellar and repeatedly raped by her father over 24 years, has stunned the world. Her father, Josef, stands accused of imprisoning Elisabeth and using her as a sex slave in an underground bunker beneath his house in the provincial Austrian town of Amstetten.
- Documentary series charting the story of Queen Victoria after the death of her beloved husband Albert in 1861, examining how one-by-one her children rebelled against her and the family were touched by tragedy.
- In this gripping investigation, archaeologist Pepi Papakosta is on a hunt for Alexander the Great's lost tomb, and she makes an extraordinary discovery.
- A look at the modern phenomenon of school and work shootings. It looks at the cases of Michael Carneal (1997), Joseph Wesbecker (1989), Charles Andrew Williams (2001, Neal Higdon (2008, and Steven Kazmierczak (2008) all of whom snapped and went postal.
- The major causes and the consequences of the humankinds greatest economic depression.
- Egyptologist Elizabeth Frood takes us back a century to experience the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb exactly as it happened, all thanks to the colourisation of the original photos and film.
- Documentary following the LGBT community in Russia.
- Actor, comedian and history buff Tony Robinson travels across Egypt, where a series of incredible new tomb discoveries are being made. He travels the length of the Nile meeting the archaeologists unearthing extraordinary wonders.
- Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan travels to India to investigate the issue of child trafficking. As the capital Delhi prepares to host the Commonwealth Games, she talks to young boys just rescued from factories in the slums. When she learns that many have been sent away with traffickers by their own parents, Lindsay sets off to find out why. In West Bengal, parents, child victims, and a former trafficker share their stories and reveal the desperate poverty which fuels this cruel trade in children. As India's economy is booming, Lindsay asks what can be done to stop this abuse.
- The film looks back at Hockney's formative years in the British pop art scene and his experiences as a gay man.
- In 1897 Queen Victoria antagonized family and court with her relationship with Indian servant Abdul Karim. Originally a waiter the devious and arrogant young man won over the queen by playing on her love of Indian cuisine and romantic view of the country,teaching her Hindistani,whilst she signed letters to him 'Mother',bestowing houses and gifts on him and his family. Already shocked that a Muslim should be at the heart of the court the Royal family stepped in when Victoria announced her desire to knight him and they threatened to have her declared insane if she went ahead. It worked. And in 1901 after the queen's death Karim was banished from Royal circles,returning to India where he died.
- In a 60-year family saga this three-part series explores the reign of Victoria through her personal relationships with her husband and her nine children. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert shared a passionate marriage. Behind closed doors, royal domestic life often seemed like a battlefield. It is a story of manipulation, conflict, intimidation, emotional blackmail, and fevered attempts by her children to escape the clutches of their domineering and needy mother. The series uses a wealth of written material and photos left by Victoria, Albert and their children, including letters, diaries, memoirs and journals, to bring the subject and characters to life.
- Painter and art critic Matthew Collings charts the rise of abstract art over the last 100 years, whilst trying to answer a set of basic questions that many people have about this often-baffling art form.
- Follows the aftermath of the death of Princess Diana in 1997, when the British Royal Family nearly lost their place in the hearts of the nation.
- From Mercury to Gemini, from Apollo to Curiosity, NASA's giant leaps in engineering and science over the last 60 years have been nothing short of astronomical. Blast off on a celestial voyage as we explore the first half-century of the Space Age. Celebrate the triumphs, lament the tragedies, and learn how modern engineers are using the past as a blueprint, refining yesterday's technologies in hopes of sending humans off to Mars and beyond.
- Max Hastings, who himself worked on the landmark series The Great War (1964) 50 years before, argues the case that his and many other ancestors did not die in vain in The First World War.
- It's the bloody coronation of the Queen!!!
- Documentary. The story of the disastrous British-led Gallipoli military campaign from the perspective of Keith Murdoch, an Australian journalist and father of Rupert Murdoch.
- Ben Steele's Orphans of Ebola follows Abu, a 12-year-old boy from a Sierra Leone village, who loses eight members of his family and must restart his life elsewhere. Filmed over a period of four months, beginning just after the height of the epidemic in December 2014 through the reopening of the country's schools in April 2015, Abu's story illustrates the incredible bravery of the thousands of children who have been orphaned by Ebola as they reconcile with the past and forge new lives.
- The events surrounding the disastrous day in September 1992 when billions were spent on shoring up the pound and Britain has forced out of the ERM, as re-told by some of the leading cast members of the drama.
- This BBC documentary outlines the evidence that suggest that Newton's revolutionary ideas about light came from his secret work as an alchemist.
- A look at the connection and scandal between Lord Robert Boothby and the Kray Twins.
- Twenty years ago, Britain went to war - with itself. In March 1984, Mrs Thatcher's government announced plans to close 20 coal mines, with the loss of 20,000 jobs. The Miners' leader, Arthur Scargill, led his workers out on strike. What followed was the ultimate left verses right showdown, a colossal battle for the political heart of a nation, with an epoch-making, era-defining moment of social significance unparalleled since World War II. This feature length documentary tells the story of the year-long struggle that split friends, families and the country apart, led to shocking scenes of violence, and made many fear that George Orwell's nightmare vision of a police state was becoming a reality. After this war, Britain would never be the same again.
- Lucian Freud, the controversial grandson of Sigmund Freud, has been called one of the greatest painters of the 20th century. His extraordinary portraits - of children, lovers, gangsters, supermodels, even the Queen of England - pushed the boundaries of art and broke world records at auction. They also enraged sitters and ended friendships. The royal photographer for The Times of London was so incensed by Freud's picture of the Queen that he said Freud should be thrown from the Tower of London. Freud, who died last summer, was notoriously elusive. Shortly before his death, however, he gave his full backing to this documentary. The film includes the only known footage of him painting on what turned out to be the last day he ever worked.
- Documentary examining the week leading up to the royal wedding of King Charles III and Princess Diana in July 1981.
- Tom Holland explores how our ancestors sought to explain the remains of dinosaurs and other giant prehistoric creatures, and how bones and fossils have affected human culture.
- Host Dan Howell goes inside the world of professional video game players. To the envy of amateurs, they've taken gaming to a whole new level, training 12 hours a day, playing in packed stadiums, and earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. (Expand Your Mind)
- Ahead of the E.U. Referendum, Michael Crick examines the public duel between David Cameron and Boris Johnson that could define Britain's future in Europe and the leadership of the Conservative Party.
- A nostalgic look at memorable and historically significant summers.
- This is the gripping story of three extraordinary people -- the world's first woman to become a man through surgery, the former Spitfire pilot who became Britain's first man to become a woman and the daring advanced plastic surgeon who carried out their sex change operations in the 1940s. Surgical gender reassignment is now almost a commonplace procedure, but then it was seen as "science fiction surgery" and when the news broke it was a sensation. Michael Dillon, originally called Laura, had persuaded the brilliant Sir Harold Gillies -- the founding father of plastic surgery thanks to his pioneering work with badly injured soldiers from both World Wars -- to carry out the female-to-male operation that no surgeon in the world had ever attempted. Both men then helped former racing car driver and wartime pilot Robert Cowell change his own gender and become a woman.